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12 “When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to Yahweh when you count them, that there be no plague among them when you count them. 13 They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel[a] of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs[b]); half a shekel for an offering to Yahweh. 14 Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. 30:13 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
  2. 30:13 a gerah is about 0.5 grams or about 7.7 grains